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What a difference two decades makes. In 1997, China’s gross domestic product was about 11 percent of the U.S’s. By 2017, it was up to 63 percent:
Continue reading “Get Used to It, America: We’re No Longer No. 1”
New data published by the Greater Las Vegas Association of Realtors shows 10,000 single-family homes were on the market and by the end of November, 7,000 of those homes had zero offers,up 54% compared to 2017 and the highest number of homes in Las Vegas Valley to not get a bid in more than two years. Continue reading ““Residents Should Not Panic”: Thousands Of Las Vegas Homes Get ZERO Offers For November”
Believe it or not, all these faces are fake. They have been synthesized by Nvidia’s new AI algorithm, a generative adversarial network capable of automagically creating humans, cats, and even cars.
The technology works so well that we can expect synthetic image search engines soon — just like Google’s, but generating new fake images on the fly that look real. Yes, you know where that is going — and sure, it can be a lot of fun, but also scary. Check out the video. It truly defies belief: Continue reading “Nvidia’s Scary AI Generates Humans That Look 100% Real”
A 1974 New York state ban on nunchucks that was put into place over fears that youth inspired by martial arts movies would create widespread mayhem is unconstitutional under the 2nd Amendment, a federal court has ruled.
Judge Pamela Chen issued her ruling Friday in a Brooklyn federal court on the martial arts weapon made famous by Bruce Lee.
Continue reading “New York’s nunchucks ban is unconstitutional, federal court rules”
Germany will make one-off compensation payments to Holocaust survivors who were evacuated to the UK to escape the Nazis.
The survivors who were evacuated to the UK were mostly Jewish children and once they arrived in the country many of them never saw their parents again. Continue reading “Germany to compensate hundreds who fled Nazis as children”
Ron Paul is warning this year’s corrections could be a precursor to an epic market collapse that may come sooner than investors think.
According to the former Republican presidential candidate, Wall Street is becoming more vulnerable to near-depression conditions within the next 12 months. Continue reading “Ron Paul: A 50% correction will spark depression-like conditions that may be ‘worse than 1929’”
STOCKTON (CBS13) — A special letter mail carriers are delivering to hundreds of homes in Stockton will hopefully bring a little financial relief in the New Year.
The money is part of the city’s basic income pilot program. Stockton is the first city in the country to launch it.
The letter 1,200 people will be receiving over the next few days does not mean people will automatically receive money but it brings them closer to potentially being selected. Continue reading “An Extra $500 A Month? 100 Residents To Be Selected For Basic Income Pilot Program”
KIRKLAND, Wash., Sept. 17, 2018 /PRNewswire/ — Highly Automated Vehicles (HAVs) are poised to radically impact the future of the long-haul trucking sector. However, where their deployment is best suited for initial success remains unclear. Without smart planning, HAVs have the potential to clog roads, increase pollution and further divide mobility options. INRIX, the global leader in connected car services and transportation analytics, has identified corridors in the U.S. that are positioned to most immediately benefit from early autonomous trucking deployment. Continue reading “INRIX Identifies U.S. Corridors Best Suited for Highly Automated Truck Deployment”
A fascinating collection of images from the American Civil war representing both armies have been brought to life via colorization, giving further insight into the most studied episode of U.S. history.
The selection of images taken over the course of the war which ran from 1861 to 1865, show some famous faces including General George A Custer, a commander who rose to fame as an officer during the war. Continue reading “A relaxed General Custer sits next to a Confederate prisoner”
A factory worker was skewered with ten huge steel spikes after a rogue robot malfunctioned and impaled the man.
The incident occurred in China and the man managed to survive after the robot’s arm fell onto him and plunged the spikes into his chest and arm. Continue reading “Factory robot malfunctions and skewers Chinese worker with TEN massive steel spikes in horrific accident”
Amazon executives had to face up to angry protesters in New York as they attended a meeting at City Hall to discuss plans to open a second headquarters in the city.
The Seattle, Washington company has come under scrutiny since it announced intentions to build a new home in the Long Island City neighborhood, with New York State and the city offering $2.8billion in tax breaks for the company that surpassed a $1trillion valuation in September. Continue reading “Amazon executives clash with angry council members and jeering protesters at New York City Hall who oppose $3billion tax break for the $1trillion company to open a second HQ in the city”
The power and greed of billionaires in the United States is threatening the country.
So says Bernie Sanders, the 77-year-old senator from Vermont who tried unsuccessfully to win the Democratic presidential nomination in 2016. Continue reading “Bernie Sanders: America is ‘owned and controlled by a small number of multi-billionaires’”
Government reports indicate that more than 1,100 Central American migrants cross illegally per day into the U.S. along the southwest border with Mexico. Breitbart News traveled to the Rio Grande Valley Sector in South Texas where hundreds of migrants cross daily.
Breitbart News’ Border/Cartel Chronicles Editor-in-Chief Brandon Darby and journalist Ildefonso Ortiz traveled to the Texas-Mexico border to film groups of Central American migrants as they crossed from Reynosa, Mexico, and entered the U.S. The trip followed reports of hundreds of migrants crossing the border in this sector on a daily basis. Darby and Ortiz interviewed some of the families to learn why they are making the hazardous and costly journey to the U.S. Continue reading “Migrant Families Cross Texas Border Seeking Asylum”
SOUTH LAKE TAHOE, Calif. – It was a normal day of skiing in South Lake Tahoe on Friday, December 7, 2018 for a couple from Oakland, California. They had parked their car on the top floor of the five-story parking garage at Heavenly Village, left their two dogs Titan and Comet inside and hit the slopes for three hours.
Upon return to their car they let the dogs out and played with them for a while, then stopped to remove their ski gear. Other people in the garage were playing with the dogs as well when, for unknown reasons, Comet jumped off the garage and fell five stories below. The couple grabbed Titan and ran to the edge of the garage and looked down to see Comet. Titan jumped out of their hands and also jumped. Continue reading “South Lake Tahoe police jump in to assist two dogs who jumped from 5th floor of parking garage”
A high school teacher in Virginia has been fired after refusing to refer to one of his students using his preferred pronoun.
Peter Vlaming, a French teacher at West Point High School, was fired after the School Board voted 5-0 in favor of terminating his role. Continue reading “Virginia Teacher Fired For Refusing To Use Transgender Student’s New Pronoun: ‘I Miss The Female Version Of The Student’”
Drivers in parts of the South face another day of dangerous road conditions and black ice after a wintry snowstorm walloped several Southern states, officials have warned.
While sunny skies helped North Carolina thaw on Tuesday, temperatures dropped again overnight, putting a winter weather advisory in effect for western parts of the state through late Wednesday morning. Continue reading “Deadly black ice still threatens drivers in the wake of Winter Storm Diego”
French President Emanuel Macron, his political career in peril and his country engulfed in increasingly violent protests, pleaded with the country’s employers Monday to give their workers a bonus and also promised a reduction in taxes in a bid to restore order after demonstrations have deeply shaken the nation during the past month.
In a pre-taped address broadcast on television, Marcon criticized the “inadmissible violence” of the protests and promised to use “all means” to restore calm. Continue reading “Macron promises ‘all means’ to restore calm after Paris riots, pledges to speed up tax relief”
Paris is on lockdown as armed police battle to contain ‘yellow vest’ demonstrators with more than 700 arrests so far today in the fourth straight weekend of demonstrations over living costs and proposed tax rises in France.
Dozens of streets in central Paris were closed to traffic, while the Eiffel Tower and world-famous museums such as the Musee d’Orsay, the Centre Pompidou and the Louvre were closed. Continue reading “Tear gas and water cannon are fired at ‘yellow vest’ rioters as ‘Day of Rage’ clashes lead to more than 700 arrests”